Thirty and A Third
Who defines a month to include a third of a day? The one who says there is; a time to work, a time to sleep, a time to laugh, a time to cry, a "time to..." Recall Ecclesiastes or the Wisdom of Solomon for every season there is something to do in its time? This is the same oration to Israel that articulated the dead are conscious of nothing. Only the true God is aware of those in His living memory that receive eternal life, resurrected in His Kingdom.
God's is the Kingdom that arrives after the week of Satan's last stand. Satan's last stand is the week after the sixty-two-weeks, and we are in the first seven weeks of the seventy weeks. Ah, the greatness of the true God's wisdom we experience through His generous mighty hands of Holy Active Discipline. Israel's twelve months of a year were equally divided into thirty and one-third days. God says, "You can think of Abib as having thirty-seven and one-third days on adjusting years."
Really, each month was equal. Trisect a solar day for the eight hours for that third a day. To top it off, Israel's calendar moved with the solar year and measured each beginning and end of a day by moonrise. The perception of moonrise is imprecise and its occurrence with the sun varies. When the moonrises at midday it reflects the sun and is not visible in the sky until the sun falls below the horizon. Then, "hello" moon shadow. Well, if the moon is not between the earth and sun, we can enjoy that luminary. Evening was used to mark the ending of periods of uncleanness because it is easily perceived.
The critical pattern for Israel was six days of toil followed by a day of sabbath. While no billable work was done on a sabbath it was always necessary to help your neighbour save his ass on the sabbath. (mac's sabbath day is from Thursday 20:00 to Friday 20:00.) Of course, pick your own berries that you ate. Remember the disciples earning a Pharisaical -- mac's bad, God meant parasitical -- conniption-fit from gleaning wheat berries? The day measured observing the moon meant days were never the same number of ticks on Big Ben. (You can substitute atomic clock precision with seconds if you like.) The key is in defining a day it was an imprecise observation that simply references a period began and ended. Stuff happened during the period. Perhaps menses. (God says, "Stop worshiping the vagina. It is not a scabbard. Latin helps here.")
Keep in mind that by the time Jesus was walking in a field with his disciples, the Pharisees -- whose fore-fathers most likely came out of Babylon as a remnant -- had lost the third of the day concept with the Babylonian calendar they were adopting back to suit the Jews. Meaning, they didn't know boodley-doo about what hour of the day the sabbath actually commenced and ended to begin with. What they knew is that it was day seven of the week.
The twelve months that divided Israel's three hundred sixty-four day year year were equal. How is that known? The true God deliberately defined the captains of the months as equal in number and of the remnant of persons waited on during gog and magog's last stand are equal amounts given to twelve divisions. Don't like that? How about that to have the first and fifteenth days of the seventh month commence on a day of Holy Sabbath the months must be thirty and one third days in duration or the seventh month does not fulfil that requirement. (God says, "And that, assholes, is solving a logic puzzle.")
Before revving up on the idea that prophecies of months are a precise measure of time. Keep in mind, how did that third of a day get measured and exactly when did it begin and end? As humans making celestial observations between moon and sun, we are always proximal unless we are measuring a precise solstice. And where in all of Israel's history did the true God ever ask that an obelisk for solar observation be constructed? Oh, that's right, He didn't. (God says, "No shit Sherlock.") What is fair is to interpret equality of counts in prophecies defined with months. Defining a duration? The false prophets are reading Daniel and Revelation again wringing their hands planning their rise above government after world war three. F.Y.I. a third world war is not going to happen. (God says, "The first two were too fucking small. Your plans for three were measly.")
Watch for signs because the true God's mighty hand is at work. A smooth as glass transition into Christ's Kingdom is our seven week occupation. False prophets enjoy that trip to the lake of fire and brimstone. It will be by its nature a Mr. Toad's ride. And by the way, your sheep escape you. Satan will have an "E" ticket ride to the abyss when the angel jails her. We will not even have to wait in line to see that spectacle.